Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

You can be happy where you are.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

My mother did not like children.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.